Dust cloth



Jan. 7, 1936'. H D MERRlM/l` 2,027,112

DUST CLOTH yFiled Jan. 5, 1955 v Patented Jan. 7, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE i DUST CLOTH Hilda D. Merriam, Chicago, Ill. Application January 5, 1935, Serial No. 573 4 Claims.` (Cl. 15-208) This invention relates to an improved dust cloth and to a method of dusting.

For some time considerable eiforts have been made to devise a paper or paper-backed dust 5 cloth which could be used for an appreciable length of time and then disposed of. It has now been discovered that a dust cloth having a very considerable capacity for dust may be very inexpensively prepared by the use oi cotton wadding backed with paper.` This dust cloth for the first time provides an article which is impervious to dust and therefore will not dirty the hand of the user; and at the same time is inexpensive enough to throw away after it is saturated with dust. A paper-faced cotton wadding suitable for this purpose has been on the market for some time but the use of such an article has been limited to a wrapper, particularly for such uses as wrapping silverware and the like.

The invention is illustrated in the drawing in which l represents a thin layer of cotton wadof to $4; inch, and

inches, either square, rectangular, circular or elliptical, as desired. The desired size is from l2 to 18 inches square. t

The cotton may be treated with a small amount of a non-gummy oil, such as the ordinary cleaning oils, in order to hold the dust. Preferably such an oil is a light oil containing a slight amount of wax.

'I'he foregoing detailed description is given for clearness of understanding only, and no unnecessary limitations should be understood therefrom, but the appended claims should be construed as broadly as permissible in view of the prior art.

What I regard as new and desire to secure by letters patent is:

1. A dust cloth comprising a thin layer of cotton wadding'having a backing of strong flexible paper, thewadding being impregnated with a20 non-gummy dust holding oil.

2. A dust cloth as set forth in claim 1 in which the wadding has a thickness of the order of to Vs inch. 4

3. A dust cloth as set forth in claim 1 in which the cloth has no dimension less than 12 inches 25 and none greater than 24 inches.

4. A dust cloth comprising an oil impregnated cotton wadding having a thickness of the order a backing of light iiexible dust impervious paper, of a size to iit the hand for dusting.

HIIDA D. HERRIAM. 

